Inside every human body. There are roughly
37.2 trillion cells each and every one
working hard to maintain a healthy, effective system 24 over seven.
And they all take their jobs very seriously.
Welcome to the inside of a human body
object fast approaching.
Point of impact. Now, confirmed issue evacuation
orders the size is 30 micrometers 20s to impact
1987 Commander 1615 helper T-cells. When alerted
to the presence of invading enemies, helper T-cells serve as commanders.
They formulate effective attack strategies and dispatch immune cells.
So it begins. 1211 The time has come.
Cedar pollen. Allergies. Cedar pollen. Cedar trees
scatter their pollen on the wind.
Peak season is February and March.
Every single. You one. One.
So.
Another day
of sending 0202 all throughout the body, every nook and cranny filled.
Is confusing and I'm lost. I'm lost.
Though we may seem hopeless. We are selfless work for you and.
Go to work. Let's get down to work.
Every day's a struggle, but I gotta pull through.
Ooh. Another day I'm out here slicing, slicing.
Filthy germs and viruses. Show your ugly
face Won't let them get away.
I'll chase and chase some. We are
professionals for sales have worked for you. And so.
Let's get down to work. Let's get down to work.
Every day is a battlefield. You better prepare 37 trillion.
We are only two. Still, I.
No, we don't know who you are.
You think we're working hard? All of us together
are supporting you with all of our hearts.
No matter what kind of dry, troublesome risk our lives,
we always take pride in what we do. And health comes first.
Are you working? Yes, I'm working. Are
you working? Working. Working for you.
Cedar pollen allergy.
That's something you don't see every day.
Cedar pollen allergen. An allergic outbreak occurs
when the immune system overreacts to a foreign substance entering the body.
Macrophages near the eyeball membrane, reporting an antigen on the way.
It's just been such an awful ordeal.
RTA spilled all over the place. RTA has become utter chaos.
Impact confirmed. Paulinus hit the water. Multiple
bogeys identified curses so we didn't pull off the blink in time.
If they continue to move at this rate,
the allergens will find a way to access the body.
Double curses, send out an alert at once.
Attention. All staff stationed near the eyeball membrane.
Please exercise caution. We stand at high alert.
Repeat enemies have invaded the body. We urge
all staff stationed near the eyeball membrane to exercise extreme caution.
Eyeball membrane. Hang on. That's this area.
I got to finish up this job and get out of here.
Okay, let's see here. The address I'm
supposed to be delivering to is over there and right now.
Okay. Is there a landmark around here
that I can use for reference?
What is that thing and why the heck does it keep. Are.
Rotten, you moron. Target sighted.
Splitsville.
It's you. Oh, hey, Red blood cell. You okay? Yeah.
As always. Thank you so much. So
what exactly is this charming blob?
It kept saying cedar or something. Actually, I have no idea,
but I can find out. No. No
phagocytic effects. Phagocytes such as macrophages, neutrophils
and monocytes absorb bacteria and foreign substances
in order to break them down. This is known as phagocytosis.
Makes sense. It tastes like an allergen released by cedar pollen.
Not uncommon this time of year. They're pretty massive.
But unlike bacteria and viruses, they don't cause illness.
Oh, that's good, at least. Don't get me wrong, though.
They can still start plenty of trouble.
But I feel bad I had to kill it. You do, huh?
Sorry. You died. Hey, is that.
Don't tell me. Is that a cedar, Paul? An allergen.
This is terrible. If that pollen is the external
force that snuck in through the ocular membrane,
then it's the first sign of the legend.
Who are you? Oh, right. Sorry. My name is Memory Cell
Memory Cell, A lymphocyte that retains memories of pathogens.
This prepares the body for a repeat invasion by the same antigen.
What are you panicking about? It's not
like they're really all that dangerous.
Yeah, maybe not now. But there's a legend
in ancient tale passed down amongst memory
cells, old as the world itself.
A legend. Are you going to tell us what it says?
Oh, wait. Memory. So.
Passed down to memory cells for generations. Now this is the legend.
When the meteor of catastrophe plummets from the heavens,
the mountains will rage, the earth will
turn violent and the sea will writhe.
What does any of that mean? Oh.
Massive eruption tremors and a great flood will all occur at once.
This trinity will usher in an unprecedented catastrophe.
The harbinger of our doom. That thing.
Oh, there's another one. You'll see soon enough.
This is an emergency alert. A large
number of cedar pollen allergens have invaded the body.
Where did all these allergens even come from?
And now it has arrived.
The beginning of the apocalypse is here.
Hello, Cedar Pollen Emergency Response HQ. Calm down, sir.
Just tell me what's happening. Yes, of course.
No, Do not return to the commander Helper T.
We're getting bombarded with cedar pollen reports.
Every year it seems like there's more
and more of these guys around.
I mean, not that I'm worried. We still have our secret weapon.
He isn't quite a secret, is he?
Shall I call him B-cell? Indeed.
You shall order him to the front lines right away.
Hey, get to safety as soon as you can. Okay.
No sign of the invasion slowing down.
Maybe memory cell was right. This is a catastrophe.
Stand back and leave this to me.
I've got the cure right here. B-cell,
the antibody producing cell, a type of lymphocyte
that fights antigens such as bacteria and
viruses by producing weapons called antibodies.
The B cells here brought his antibodies to this catastrophe.
Anything in that book about stopping it before it can happen?
A divine mist envelops the land, but when the fog parts,
it will open the gateway to the
dark. Well, that's useless. All right.
You and your buddies are history.
It's bedtime. How about some immunoglobulin E?
He wiped them out in one shot.
You don't think that Divine Mist could
be the IgG antibody, do you?
I mean, it's looking like he's got
everything under control. Yeah, it does.
No. But if the myths hold true, the chaos is only beginning.
The mist will become dark clouds, releasing
a heavy rainfall and washing everything away.
I don't know what's going to happen.
This is freaking me out. I'm telling you.
A terrible fate is about to befall us.
There's no way to know what's about to happen.
So what can we do? Is the best cell.
Huh? That reading. What the. But how?
Cells at work.
What is with this absurdly high usage of IJ.
What is going on?
It doesn't make sense.
I've never seen these numbers. Marcel. Commonly known as a fat cell,
releases chemical mediators such as histamines and leukotrienes
in reaction to the production of excessive immunoglobulin.
Although they're referred to as fat cells,
they have nothing to do with fat.
It says to produce histamines commensurate with
the amount of IgG. But that's.
Okay, Mast, just calm down. Pull yourself together.
Take a breath. You can do this.
Don't overthink things. No panicking allowed. All
you have to do is follow the manual.
It's as simple as that. Just do your job.
So if I'm matching the ECG.
Okay. So I guess he is kind of using a lot of ECG.
That's probably a bad idea, huh? Oh, totally.
Hey, BSL, I think it's a bad
move to get carried away with that stuff.
I don't know the details, but there's this legend. What legend?
Relax, dude. It'll be fine. Trust me.
There's no reason to worry. See, the histamines
are about to come into play.
Those babies will start inflaming and finish off those allergens.
Oh. So write about something. Hey, why is it retracting?
They probably just got to change the nozzle.
Histamine, a chemical substance released by mast
cells upon recognizing foreign substances or injuries.
Hey, is this the rainfall? It might be
the.
Guys just keep on coming. Oh, so all
of that IJ was to fight off this
giant horde of cedar pollen allergens.
That's bad. Okay. Solve the problem. More histamines.
So is this it? Is this the catastrophe? No, it's not.
This is just the start. The true disaster begins now.
Histamines job histamines dilate the vascular endothelial cells,
allowing white blood cells to permeate the vessels at a higher rate.
We're in trouble, Captain. We're being flooded.
There's a histamine overflow, sir. There's a what?
Get Marcel on the horn and you order her to pull back.
I've tried, Captain. She said this is
the only way to eliminate the allergens.
She's insane. There must be another way.
We've been breached, sir. The histamines are
flooding in. No, the secretion centre.
Short circuited.
More bad news, Captain. What is it now?
With all the damage to the secretion center,
the emergency immune system, sir, is about to kick in. Oh, no.
Anything but the emergency immune system.
Hey, look up there.
Look there. The first sign, the massive eruption.
Sneezing when histamine stimulates sensory nerves in the nasal membrane.
A sneeze occurs, and when this stimulation
reaches the sneezing center, they can occur in repetition.
The tremors have begun. The nasal membrane won't stop swelling.
Nasal congestion. Histamines influence blood vessels in the nasal membrane causing inflammation.
The nasal membrane swells and bloats, causing nasal congestion.
Well, the twos are above the. Over now the great blood
tears histamine stimulate the eyes, sensory nerves
triggering inflammation and resulting in bloodshot eyes.
Tears are produced to ease this pain.
All true.
The legend of the cedar pollen allergy.
Cedar pollen allergy. Allergic symptoms such as sneezing,
runny nose and nasal congestion are triggered
when cedar pollen becomes an allergen.
It's like a nightmare. Why is this happening to us?
This is all his fault. You better
fix this. Do you hear me? B-cell.
Huh? It's all because you kept showing
off and squashing those antibodies around.
Come on. I was just doing my job.
If you think about it, it's the histamines fault.
This is all your fault, Marcel. What
the heck is wrong with you? What's the big idea?
And you all lost your minds. Don't you touch me.
Let me go. I'm not taking the fall here.
The ECG caused this. No overproduction of histamines did the damage, but.
Nice try. I did my job. Exactly how the manual said too.
Well, then you must have read the manual wrong.
Don't you know how to do your
job without taking direction? Fatty. Fatso.
I can't believe you'd call me that.
Especially when the B and B cell stands for Bonehead.
What did you just say? I called you a bonehead Bonehead.
Well, bring it on, then, you fatty.
Well, this is starting to get out of hand.
Yeah. It's strange.
All that happened here is that everyone did their jobs.
No one knew it could turn out like this.
Even if we'd foreseen all this would happen.
What then? Even if we'd all been aware,
we had no choice but to see it through.
Well, that's simply what we do. We
can't walk away from our jobs.
It's our fate. One that we can never escape.
Can never escape. Can never.
White blood cell.
Oh, hey, red blood cell. What is that? Oh, my gosh.
I am so sorry. This thing is. Well, I don't know what it is,
but I do know that I'm supposed to deliver it right here.
Whoa. Are they fighting back there? No, never mind.
Are you all right? Not at the moment, but I'm sure I'll live.
So you have no idea what this is? Not a clue.
Have you ever seen one of these things before?
Memory cell? No, not that I can recollect. Arrived at Target destination.
What in the world is that? Do you think it's with the pollen?
Target cell confirmed. Locked on. Commence extermination.
What? No. No.
The heck is going on? Why is that thing attacking us?
Now exterminated.
Oh, come on. Not my house again. No.
What? Remember this now? It's stories long forgotten.
It appears whenever a cataclysmic shift occurs.
Relentless unheeding devastation, it wipes out everything
that's borne witness to the disaster.
It goes by the name Steroid.
Steroids, also known as Adrenocortical steroid hormone,
a drug with powerful anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects,
suppresses symptoms caused by histamines, while also
quashing the initial allergic reactions themselves.
We might be in trouble, sir. Stay back.
I'm sorry. These fell on my.
Please stop. Leave me alone.
Oh, compared to this monster, you were a consummate gentleman. B-cell.
Reserves depleted. Thank you for your patronage.
The steroid went silent after exhausting his active ingredients
at some point during all of the chaos.
The allergens died out and the allergic reaction settled down.
At long last, the cells made peace with one another.
Thank goodness all of this is over.
Truly. Thank goodness. Side effects of steroids,
prolonged use and massive dosage of steroids
may sometimes cause deleterious side effects.
It's crucial to adhere to the directions and recommended dosage.
No matter what. I'll never forget the horrors that befell us today.
Key
I'm kind of curious. What were you like as a little kid?
Oh, I was always getting lost. I am so surprised.
Next time on cells at work. Erythroblasts and Myelocytes.
All right, It's time to get to work.